Electric socket.



No. 733.759. PATENTED JULY 14, 1903.

W. S. STAPLEY.

ELECTRIC SOCKET. APPLICATION ,I'ILED MAE. 5, 1903.

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UNITE STATES Patented July 14, 1903.

ATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. STAPLEY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO BRIDGEPORT BRASS COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

ELECTRIC SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. {733,759, dated July 14-, 1903.

Application filed March 5, 1903.

1'0 a6! whom, it may concern:

299 Park street, Bridgeport, Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Electric Sockets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an electric socketshell with which is combined a shade-holder.

It is intended to produce a light strong device in which the shade-holder shall be so firmly secured to the socket-shell as to prevent rattling.

Figures I and II of the drawings show in vertical section different forms of my device.

Referring to Fig. I, the socket-shell 1 may be of any desired pattern. Its reduced portion 11 is provided with a bead 12. The shade-holder 2, which may be of the usual or of any desirable type, is shown with lugs 21 and screws 22 for suspending a shade. It has a vertical flange or annulus of contact 23, adapted to slip smoothly over the reduced portion 11 of the shell 1, to bear against the bead 12, and to be firmly held in place by the rolling after the holder is in place of a second bead 13 in the socket-shell. This method of attaching the shade-holder to the shellsecures against any vibration or rattling of the suspended shade.

In Fig. II of the drawings the shade-holder is shown as slipped over the reduced portion 11 of the socket-shell and the two parts joined by a rolling operation, which forms at the same time a bead 12 in the socket-shell and an inclosing bead 24 in the flange of the shade-holder.

My present invention is an improvement upon that shown in my application, Serial No. 133,267, filed November-29, 1902. It will This in- $erialN0.146, 27 9. (No model.)

sures the easy insertion of the lamp into the inclosed socket, which operation is with some types of lamp quite difficult where the shade-holder is secured at the extreme end of the shell, as in my former device. It also fully covers the fiber socket, protecting it from any injury.

What I claim is- 1. Acombined incandescent-lamp socketshell and shade-holder comprising a socketshell and a shade-holder havinga flange surrounding said shell substantially above its lower end, said shell having projections adj acent said flange by which said shade-holder is permanently attached to said shell.

3. A combined incandescent-lamp socketshell and shade-holder comprising a socketshell having ann ular proj ectionssubstantially above its lower end and a shade-holder having an annular flange surrounding said shell and engaged with said projections so as to prevent its longitudinal movement on said shell.

4:. A combined incandescent-lampsocketshell'and shade-holder comprising a socketshell having projections substantially above its lower end and a shade-holder. having annular contact with said shell and with said projections whereby said shell and said shadeholder are rigidly secured together.

WILLIAM s. STAPLEY. 

